Courses We Teach
New 300 Barcelona: Sport, Place, Politics & Identity (Global Intensive Study Abroad Course)
Explores how sport acts as a cultural agent to affect sense of place, nation building, and politics. Using Barcelona as the backdrop, the course considers how Catalan identity is exerted, contested, and advanced through modern sport entities including the Olympic Games and Football Club Barcelona.
COM/POS/SBS/SOC 394 Soccer: The Global Game
Examines soccer as a lens to understand issues of class, race, gender, identity, and nationality against a backdrop of sport commodification, globalization, and politicization.
COM 477 Sport, Culture & Discourses
Introduces sport as a global economic and cultural force, as a foundational discourse experienced largely through media. Facilitates the understanding of sport as a major cultural and socializing institution and as a key site for the construction of knowledge, understandings, ideologies, and identities.
HON 394 Soccer, Politics, & Identity
Explores the connections between politics and identity, paying particular attention to the historical and cultural factors that have positioned soccer as highly politicized force for enacting and reflecting one’s identity.
COM 494 Sport Films and Documentaries
Explores how sports films and documentaries are constructed (techniques, frames, narratives, etc.) and the ways that these interconnect with audiences to reproduce or challenge prominent historical and contemporary understandings and ideologies.
COM/POS/SBS/SOC 494 Fans, Ultras, & Hooligans: The Global Appeal of Soccer
With passionate fans across the world, soccer fosters deep connections between fans, the clubs they support, and the places where they reside. This course explores identity, culture, politics, and activism associated with soccer fans from a global perspective.
Explores how sport acts as a cultural agent to affect sense of place, nation building, and politics. Using Barcelona as the backdrop, the course considers how Catalan identity is exerted, contested, and advanced through modern sport entities including the Olympic Games and Football Club Barcelona.
COM/POS/SBS/SOC 394 Soccer: The Global Game
Examines soccer as a lens to understand issues of class, race, gender, identity, and nationality against a backdrop of sport commodification, globalization, and politicization.
COM 477 Sport, Culture & Discourses
Introduces sport as a global economic and cultural force, as a foundational discourse experienced largely through media. Facilitates the understanding of sport as a major cultural and socializing institution and as a key site for the construction of knowledge, understandings, ideologies, and identities.
HON 394 Soccer, Politics, & Identity
Explores the connections between politics and identity, paying particular attention to the historical and cultural factors that have positioned soccer as highly politicized force for enacting and reflecting one’s identity.
COM 494 Sport Films and Documentaries
Explores how sports films and documentaries are constructed (techniques, frames, narratives, etc.) and the ways that these interconnect with audiences to reproduce or challenge prominent historical and contemporary understandings and ideologies.
COM/POS/SBS/SOC 494 Fans, Ultras, & Hooligans: The Global Appeal of Soccer
With passionate fans across the world, soccer fosters deep connections between fans, the clubs they support, and the places where they reside. This course explores identity, culture, politics, and activism associated with soccer fans from a global perspective.